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How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen

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There are commercial gloves designed to work with touchscreens, but you can achieve the same functionality with your current pair of gloves using a needle and some conductive thread.

https://lifehacker.com/use-your-touchscreen-in-the-cold-with-dots-gloves-5067172

The iPhone screen is capacative, meaning that it requires your finger to complete a circuit in order to work. So, by sewing some conductive thread in small patches on the fingers of your gloves (a circle of about 1/4″ or 6mm in diameter is recommended) and larger patches on the inside area of the fingertip, you should be able to use your touchscreen with an acceptable degree of accuracy.

Still, I have to imagine that this modification would be useless on anything other than tight-fitting gloves. The thick gloves that actually keep your hands warm would be far too bulky. [Instructables via Lifehacker]

https://lifehacker.com/make-any-pair-of-gloves-work-with-a-touchscreen-5412625

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